What Bahá’ís Believe


Bahá’ís believe that there is a single infinite, all-loving God Who is known around the world by different names. Throughout history God has sent divine Teachers to reveal His Will progressively according to humanity’s developing needs and ability to comprehend. Those Teachers have included Abraham, Moses, Christ, Buddha, Zoroaster, Krishna, and Muhammad, each of Whom brought essentially the same spiritual truth, but different social laws addressed to the needs of Their times. The world’s great religions, then, constitute a single faith, like chapters in a great book of truth.

Bahá’u’lláh is the most recent Messenger from God. He teaches that the purpose of each individual soul is to know and to love God, and that of humanity is to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization. He has amplified eternal spiritual truths and brought new teachings that will unite humanity into the long-promised age of peace and unity. Among those Teachings are:

  • the responsibility of each person to independently search for truth

  • the abandonment of all forms of prejudice

  • recognition of the oneness of the human family

  • recognition of the essential unity of the world’s religions

  • recognition that true religion is in harmony with reason and the pursuit of scientific knowledge

  • assurance to women of full equality of rights and opportunity with men

  • the elimination of extremes of poverty and wealth

  • the realization of universal education

  • the establishment of a global commonwealth of nations

 

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